That does seem rather strange.....have you tried in another room with wired connectivity? Maybe the patch in the office is bad/damaged or experiencing significant interference from a close power source/wire that isn't perpendicular to the patch in the wall. Running iperf/jperf is the way to go. I noticed that the switch isn't a smart/fully managed unit, could the interface that location is plugged into be bad? Do you have all your runs going to a patch panel? Or directly to the switch?

That does seem rather strange.....have you tried in another room with wired connectivity? Maybe the patch in the office is bad/damaged or experiencing significant interference from a close power source/wire that isn't perpendicular to the patch in the wall. Running iperf/jperf is the way to go. I noticed that the switch isn't a smart/fully managed unit, could the interface that location is plugged into be bad? Do you have all your runs going to a patch panel? Or directly to the switch?

I just tried a completely different room - exact same results through iperf. 113MBytes 94.5 Mbits/sec.

The switch is not a managed unit. I've tried moving the cables to different ports, but no change in results.

I have all the runs just terminating into RJ45 CAT6 connectors (not a patch panel). There are 2 per room with about 12 drops, so I haven't terminated them all yet - only the ones I've been testing with.

I am using CAT6 ends as well.

It seems odd that two different rooms have EXACTLY the same slow performance values. But when I tie the laptop directly into the switch with a short CAT6 patch cable (into the same port I had the slow speeds on), I get what I expect (gigabit speeds)...

Any other ideas as to what would be causing all this cat 6 cable in the house to have the same slow transfer speed? Maybe bad keystone jacks they used?

Yup the next thing I did was actually pull apart the keystone jacks and see how they terminated there.

Turned out they terminated completely incorrectly.

It wasn't even T568A or B, it was a mash between them.

I think they were trying to terminate for T568A but the guy misread the jacks.

I pulled the wires out of one of the jacks and wired it properly and boom, everything works great. So now I'm trying to decide if I call them to get them to come fix their screw up or just do it myself... gonna take a while to do each and every one of these.

Yup the next thing I did was actually pull apart the keystone jacks and see how they terminated there.

Turned out they terminated completely incorrectly.

It wasn't even T568A or B, it was a mash between them.

I think they were trying to terminate for T568A but the guy misread the jacks.

I pulled the wires out of one of the jacks and wired it properly and boom, everything works great. So now I'm trying to decide if I call them to get them to come fix their screw up or just do it myself... gonna take a while to do each and every one of these.

Thanks again for the responses.

Call them and have them fix their mistake. Hopefully that will keep them from doing it again.

If the installer is that bad- he wired simple color coded keystone punchdown jacks incorrectly- I wouldn't let him back in my house again.
Pull all the jacks- pull the wires out of the crimps, cut the wires back a half inch- then re-punch them all correctly. At least that way you'll know they're all done right.

"If we ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space."

If the installer is that bad- he wired simple color coded keystone punchdown jacks incorrectly- I wouldn't let him back in my house again.
Pull all the jacks- pull the wires out of the crimps, cut the wires back a half inch- then re-punch them all correctly. At least that way you'll know they're all done right.

This is what I ended up doing anyway. I didn't feel like waiting on them to come out and fix it, and then me having to go back and check that they fixed it properly.

My guess is that they aren't used to doing cat6 pulls. I paid a little extra for them to pull cat6 instead of cat5e. Since they pulled cat6, the guy who punched them down to the cat6 keystone jacks might not have known they were different (the keystone jack punchdowns).

Each keystone jack was punched down properly for T568 by the order the wires were punched down into the jack (WG/G/WO/Bl/WBl/O/WBr/Br) however he didn't take into account that the jacks were actually labelled and color coded to be punched down as (WG/G/WO/O/WBl/Bl/WBr/Br... or something like that) and then an internal crossover happened in the jack. It basically caused all the connections to throttle down to fast ethernet which was why I was seeing those cruddy speeds.

Either way, its all fixed - I got every jack fixed and punched down to my patch panel and tested, so I'm good to go.